Water and Energy

Water has always fascinated me. When I was very young, we had a blue VW bug that needed water at least once a trip. My mother explained that we needed water to make the car go. I believed the car ran off water. I had an accepted paradigm that the car must split water and use it for energy. For 15 years, I accepted this idea until that embarrassing moment in my twenties when I told the story and realized that the car had a bad radiator. That was a moment...but the joke was on them when several years later people started to experiment with water as fuel. I have a dream that we will eventually find a way to break apart and combine water in such a way that it will be a closed system and the car will run off of 3 gallons of water that it breaks apart and recombines. Imagine a car that does not need replenished fuel. Recently, watching a film about Einstein and the events leading up to finding the energy from the atomic bomb (called Einstein's Grand Idea, I think) this idea was reinforced.

One of the coolest things about Star Trek is the belief in a better future. The knowledge that we will survive as a species and we will solve many of the problems we now take as a part of our condition. Pollution is one of those. A car that has no emissions will be a great stride forward.